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Originally Posted by blackfoxtrade
So they are trying to say that mining uranium produces CO2, but drilling oil is OK? Steel and concrete? What about the steel and concrete used to build conventional power plants? It's strange that when people talk about nuclear energy, they include ALL the emissions, but when talking about oil, coal or gas power plants, they only seem to include the emissions from burning the fuel.
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I was under the impression that renewable power plant CO2 emissions took into accout the CO2 released from the manufacture of the technologies. The same is true for fossil fuel generation. An example can be found in DTI publication ETSU-R-122. The link to the pdf is
http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file21102.pdf and you want to look at Appendix B: Environmental Implications (Page 212 onwards and the first table of figures + information is on P213).
I'm providing this mearly to illustrate that for all of the other electricity generating technologies in the UK an attempt has been made to include emissions for the construction phases of the plant and the extraction and processing phases for the fuel. I'm not stating in any way that the exact figures are correct. Given this, do you not think that the same process should apply to nuclear power generation?